conference the next day, or not a well—developed one, which we started to scrabble around and get ready for the next morning and i think, actually, in many ways, not everyone would agree with me on the leave campaign, but i think in many ways that was a big mistake and almost was the beginning of the next chapter. if the leave campaign had in many ways over performed in the referendum and won against expectations, we were then on account of losing streak, where brexit, there were attempts to dilute it or may overturn brexit and i think maybe that was the beginning of an opening for a sorry chapter for the leave side. so you won the war and set about losing lots of battles. yeah, quite right. theresa may came into downing street and, you know, all my team who had just worked their guts out on the referendum and won the stunning victory, suddenly we were all sat at home, unemployed and a little bit depressed. it was a very bittersweet moment. because that was the weird thing about the whole process, because we had all that drama and then you have the drama of the tory leadership contest, but brexit as a thing didn't really become an issue,